MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH030 : Oxalis corniculata L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 67 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Shade of walls, stream and river beds | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Common | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Oxalidaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | K- Khatta Zara, Indian sorrel, Seh-patti, Tinpatiya, Anboti, Chuka tripati, Bhilmori, Khatari, Ambali, Chicha, Umbuti, Ambuti, Bhinsarpati, Aambotee, Ambata chukaa | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Oxalis foliosa Blatter. Oxalis repens Thunb. Oxalis villosa M. Bieb. |
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| Description : | Plants creeping, pubescent, rooting at the nodes. Leaflets 4—15 mm long, 8—32 mm broad, obcordate, pilose-tomentose. Flowers solitary or in 2—5 flowered axillary umbels. Pedicel 5—15 mm long, deflexed in fruit. Bracts 3—5, linear. Sepals 5, linear lanceolate, pilose. Petals 5, yellow. Filaments glabrous. Carpels 5, pubescent; styles longer than the shorter stamens. Capsule 1—2.5 cm long, subcylindric, pubescent. Seeds 1.5 mm long, brown, transversely ribbed. Fl. Per. March December. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Antibiotic, good appetizer, removes kapha, vata, and piles; astringent cures dysentery and Diarrheas, skin diseases and quarten fevers, Leaves are anti-inflammatory, Refrigerant and antiscorbutic | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Palmitic acid Oleic acid Linoleic acid Linolenic acid Stearic Acid Beta-sitosterol Betulin 4-hydroxybenzoic acid Ethyl gallate 5-hydroxy-7,8-dimethoxyflavone |
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| Reference : | ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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